Albert Brooks Quotes
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.
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Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
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As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
